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Refinishing Cabinet and Display Tables Thomas
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In September of 2007 I started
organizing work parties for my Eagle Scout Project. I had 8 beat-up,
old, tables which had chipped varnish and a lot of water damage. In
order to recondition the tables, I arranged work parties to recondition
the tables. I had lots of help from members of my Troop, Troop 153.
First, the varnish had to be stripped,, the wood sanded, and bleached
(to remove the water damage out of the wood). After this, we stained the
wood, varnished the table tops and finally repainted the legs of the
tables.
Because most of the tables were in use, we had to work on set of 3
tables at a time. Each set of tables was removed from use for
approximately two weeks while they were reconditioned.
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Area before project during the summer |
Clearing and chipping area |
At long last I finished the project. With the tables
looking good, I returned them to the Math-Science Nucleus. They now are
serving as display tables for the fossil museum at the Math-Science
Nucleus.
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Making sure chips are 3 inches thick |
The finished area |
The following people helped
work on this project: Angela Matthews, Simon Matthews, Alex
Krishnan, Alex Tsang, Jo Melville, Ernest Wong, Nathan Wong, Kasi
Manikumar, Karthik Magilvahanan, Ian Kreeger, Randy Chow, Kevin
Chow, Alex Scott, Andrew Scott, Mohit Asthang, Harrison Ching,
Zachary Shaffer, and Shaurin Desai.
The following donated materials for this project:
Orchard Supplies (OSH)
McIvors Hardware
The Matthews Family